Following on from the teaser video, a collection of photos from last nights gig: Related Entries:

For the past few months we've been recording the java podcast and I thought I'd write down some quick thoughts on the tools/setup we're using.The first ever recording (not publicly available) was recorded directly to internal mike of Richards Macbook

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No group of musicians more perfectly bridged British Invasion pop and American punk than Cheap Trick. For more than 30 years Cheap Trick have been the de facto heroes of American rock'n'roll. They have released 15 albums since their debut

Episode #5 of our new java podcast is has been posted focusing on language diversity and Microsoft's new Axum programming language, static vs dynamic templates and much more.Related Entries:

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In order to learn more about using beyond a more 'simple' build, I decided to build a maven plugin, or mojo as they're called to wrap my simple library.Now it's as easy as a few lines of XML and SQL

What can I say about that a series of videos can say better? For those who've never heard them - it's time to wake up and smell the carcass: Related Entries:

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For a while I've been an avid lover of the testing framework, but one thing I always struggled with was the separation of state/data between the specification and the fixture. As a simple work around I added a simple "eval"

It would seem Gavin King's having similar thoughts to something I was working on last week, only with a much larger and grander scale:The first problem isn't really solvable without major new language features (usually described as "DSL support"). The

With all the talk from about bringing a focus to via , I wonder how things would shape up if a modular build tool such as was also adopted.I've never looked at the JDK sources/build process and I suspect moving

When it comes to music - I'm a freak. Not only do I have a overly large collection; it's varied and rather eclectic - often going form jazz to blues to death metal to opera and back to jazz in

My top 10 (or less) albums of 2008, grouped by vague genre groupings:Top rockExtreme - Saudades De RockEdguy - Tinnitus SanctusTop melodic/power/progressive metalTop death/black metal/progressive death/technicalTop stoner/sludge/doom/avant gardeIntronaut - Prehistoricisms (for some reason, removed from the NZ iTunes store...)Top metal/hardcore/goth/thrashDie

Like most years I spent Saturday at Parachute Music Festival, opting this year just for the day rather than the full weekend, but I managed to catch some killer acts, including my brothers set with the beginnings of a new